All Marsha Norman Quotes
- There are things that music can do that language could never do, that painting could never do, or sculpture. Music is capable of going directly… Capable
- We are not afraid to look under the bed, or to wash the sheets; we know that life is messy. We know that somebody has… Afraid
- Knowing is the most profound kind of love, giving someone the gift of knowledge about yourself. Gift
- I have had an inordinate and painful concern for the audience in my writing career. Audience
- Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you. Book
- People do think that if they avoid the truth, it might change to something better before they have to hear it. Avoid
- The theater is a communal event, like church. The playwright constructs a mass to be performed for a lot of people. She writes a prayer,… Church
- I'm just not having a very good time and I don't have any reason to think it'll get anything but worse. I'm tired. I'm hurt.… Any
- Mama, I know you used to ride the bus. Riding the bus and it’s hot and bumpy and crowded and too noisy and more than… Block
- No. You can't. And I can't do anything either, about my life, to change it, make it better, make me feel better about it. Like… All
- Family is just accident.... They don't mean to get on your nerves. They don't even mean to be your family, they just are. Accident
- Success is always something that you have to recover from. Always Something
- I grew up at the piano, and I longed to write musicals. Grew
- There are days when I think the National Endowment for the Arts should issue a quota system for the production of plays by women -… All
- If I had not had music in my life, I would be the neurasthenic vision of the playwright. Life
- I feel that I speak the musical language. Feel
- People listen to music with cavemen ears: Is it a bird song or the call of a lion? The audience at a musical is dancing… Audience
- At the heart of the failure of most plays is the inability to carry on a thoughtful conversation about your work with yourself. Carry
- Music expresses longing and love and joy better than any piece of dialogue you can ever write. Any